Author: By Ben Guarino The Washington Post
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‘Jurassic Park’ put dino dung on the silver screen. Here’s the real story.
When Karen Chin, a paleontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, saw the massive piles of dinosaur dung in the 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park,” she began to laugh. It’s a comical amount of waste. Near the midpoint of the film, the mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) walks up to a mound left by a…
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The ‘five-second rule’ for eating food? Scientists just demonstrated how gross it is
Imagine it’s lunch. You are holding a fat slice of watermelon. It looks delicious. You move in for a bite. But something goes terribly wrong. The fruit slips from your juice-slicked fingers. Time slows as the nutritious treat tumbles to the linoleum. Eh. You shrug, scooping up the slice. Maybe you make a halfhearted attempt…